{"id":8052,"date":"2016-01-27T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:58:39","slug":"windows-10-tiles-to-drive-you-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8052","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Tiles to Drive You Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 didn&#8217;t kill off the Windows 8 tile-based Start Screen. Instead, it plastered those tiles onto the right side of the Start menu. I assume most people ignore those tiles. I know that office IT professionals would like to get rid of the tiles. Here&#8217;s how.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRight-click any tile you want to remove. That&#8217;s probably all of them, but you have to process each tile one at a time: Right-click, then choose Un-Pin from Start, as shown in Figure 1. The tile is gone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8053\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0127-figure2.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. Removing those annoying tiles.\" width=\"349\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0127-figure2.png 349w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0127-figure2-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Removing those annoying tiles.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Removing tiles is satisfying, but only briefly. They do return. Any time you update Windows, or the Microsoft Store feels like you need some worthless app, tiles re-appear. You&#8217;ll have to remove them again, one at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I know of no permanent method to shut down the tile part of the Start menu. I really wish it were an option, but I fear that Microsoft is trying to push their hokey App Store and part of the promises that they make to developers (or for a few) is that their app tile appears on every user&#8217;s Start menu. That&#8217;s probably the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the dumb tiles are with us for a while. I removed the annoying ones, the ones that keep flashing updated information and those for apps I don&#8217;t use. But, honestly, I&#8217;ve never clicked on a tile. I just ignore that part of the Start menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel free to banish those tiles from the Start menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-pc","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}